The Excavation Diary

The excavation diaries are a daily log kept by the excavators on site during each season. They record the day to day activity of the team and their observations on their work.
 
Displaying Diary Entries for Building: 119

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Name: Constantinos Koutsadelis 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 7/8/2004 
Entry: Co-author: Beliz Tecirli. Today we continued cleaning the floor surface (U. 10801) and defining the constructional features which appear on it. More particularly, we tried to interpret the plaster traces in the north east corner of the space 112 (U. 10804... click here for more... 
 
Name: EM 
Team:  
Date: 7/2/2014 
Entry: This week we've been excavating unit 21101 of Building 119. This meant excavating the rubble layer, which was incredibly compact. Until this week, I'd never really understood that archaeology is a destructive process. Initially we scraped away at the laye... click here for more... 
 
Name: Elizabeth Margolin 
Team:  
Date: 7/8/2014 
Entry: Today we finally reached the floor in the southern part 
 
Name: Elizabeth Margolin 
Team:  
Date: 7/8/2014 
Entry: Today we finally reached the floor in unit 21160, the southern part of the side room of building 119. Upon uncovering the floor we found two significant structures near the partition wall on the northern side of the unit. The structures seemed to be a hea... click here for more... 
 
Name: Elizabeth Margolin 
Team:  
Date: 7/9/2014 
Entry: Yesterday I wrote about an oven like structure that didn't connect to the floor, so we thought that structure had fallen into the building. In an epic twist of fate, it has been proposed that maybe the floor isn't the floor at all. Maybe, the structure go... click here for more... 
 
Name: arek k. 
Team:  
Date: 7/2/2016 
Entry: B.132 is obviously huge edifice whose extent easily could astonish visitor. If you stand on the western edge of the research area facing towards the East below you can see the wide surface of undulated floors and UBIQUITOUS HOLES that dominate within the... click here for more... 
 
Name: Duygu E. 
Team:  
Date: 6/3/2017 
Entry: Last week’s aim was getting rid of the features and revealing the packing all over S.531. So first thing to remove was the long lived bench F.7879. While I was excavating the make-up of the bench U.32740, unexpectedly I revealed an earlier phase of th... click here for more... 
 
Name: Justine Issavi 
Team:  
Date: 6/4/2017 
Entry: The use of open spaces through time is a central concern for my dissertation project and in many ways Space 610 is the perfect case study. Large and multi-phased, the space has variously accommodated a great array of activities (ranging from food processi... click here for more... 
 

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